Mindless Zecurity Folliez
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The JoJo
Wannabe Storage Freak
There goes common sense down the drain...
jtr1962
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To add one to the list my brother's 84-year old landlady flew to California a few weeks ago to stay with her niece. She suffered a stroke several months ago, had just gotten out of rehab, and plans to stay with her niece for probably the remainder of her life. In any case, she was born in the US, lived in the same house for something like 70 years, and is hardly a threat, especially given her frail condition. She was pulled off the security line because the security buffoons evidently didn't like her answers to some of their questions. Admittedly, she has been known to make wisecracks when subjected to stupidity, but she is not overtly threatening in the least. The security took her to a room for questioning, and decided to give her a full cavity search as well. Exactly why we'll never know. Such is the state of mindless paranoia here, and rent-a-cops are using terrorism as an excuse to go on power trips. The only thing that puzzles me is why a significant portion of the population still subjects themselves to these invasive security procedures by choosing to fly. They should take a train, boat, drive, bike, or even walk, and let the airlines go screw themselves. Next time another plane slams into a building will be the final proof of the pointlessness of these security procedures. As it is we have 9/11, invasive security, bad economy, high fuel prices, fear of terrorism, and SARS as nails in the coffin of civil aviation. One or two more 9/11-type incidents will mean New York City gains a few square miles of prime waterfront real estate where the airports used to be.
Pradeep
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You just cannot screw around with the TSA droids. They have the power to make your life extrememly miserable, and answer to no-one. And they are blessed with machines that apparently cannot tell the difference between nitroglycerin and the glycerin used in hand care products.
If the NYC airports were closed, the economy of the city would be down the crapper (more than it is already). No tourism. Hotels and restaurants sitting vacant. Tens of thousands more unemployed. Not a pretty picture.
If the NYC airports were closed, the economy of the city would be down the crapper (more than it is already). No tourism. Hotels and restaurants sitting vacant. Tens of thousands more unemployed. Not a pretty picture.
Vlad The Impaler
Learning Storage Performance
A cavity search???? That was so much some little a**hole trying to teach her a lesson for not 'respecting my authoriti' as Cartman says.
Stereodude
Not really a
I probably should refrain from saying this, but the TSA people seem about as sharp as a marble. Apparently one of my bags in Kansas City tested positive for Nitroglycerin. The woman says to the other guy. "The machine's acting up again." They proceeded to unpack my carefully packed bag and test each item. Of course none of them tested positive for anything.Pradeep said:
However, amid all their stupidity they couldn't figure out how to repack my bag. I'm not allowed to touch it, but they couldn't get all the stuff back in the bag, so I'm there giving them directions on how to repack it. It was pathetic.
Of course if they knew they had a machine that was "acting up", why are they still using it?
Stereodude
Tea
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Stereodude said:
Cause they is as sharp as marblez, natch.
Pradeep
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http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/4102992.htm
Something to make your skin crawl. Hopefully these two get thrown in jail for their criminal negligence.
Something to make your skin crawl. Hopefully these two get thrown in jail for their criminal negligence.
time
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I wouldn't bank on it Pradeep. Accountability doesn't seem to be in the new US vocabulary. 
Tea
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Pradeep, that is just appalling. If that story is even hlf true, the US is well down the road to self destruction.
Pradeep
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Sadly it is all true Tea, the corroboration of the judge who was onboard makes it pretty compelling.
I can't find the link to the article where an air marshal left his gun in the plane potty. Or where another guy has an accidental (negligent) discharge in the potty. Boggles the mind.
I can't find the link to the article where an air marshal left his gun in the plane potty. Or where another guy has an accidental (negligent) discharge in the potty. Boggles the mind.
Tea
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I alwayz thought that accidental dizchargez were what you called them when you wazn't on the potty. But whatever.
(I think what you really mean, Tea, is that the whole Nazification of the modern USA post 911 (not to mention Australia under that spinless and hysterical lickspittle Howard) is too horrible to think about, which is why you are making infantile jokes instead.)
(Yez Tannin. But I ... Ah, to hell with it. Can we go to bed now?)
(OK.)
(I think what you really mean, Tea, is that the whole Nazification of the modern USA post 911 (not to mention Australia under that spinless and hysterical lickspittle Howard) is too horrible to think about, which is why you are making infantile jokes instead.)
(Yez Tannin. But I ... Ah, to hell with it. Can we go to bed now?)
(OK.)